Russ Barenberg Acoustic Guitar & Exploring the Fingerboard – Russ Barenberg
A Flatpicker’s Guide to Better Playing
Tone, Timing, Improvisation & More
90-minute Lesson + Music & Tab Booklet on pdf file to view or print
A good flatpick guitarist is much more than someone who plays all the right notes. The player who stands out in a crowd exhibits a combination of skill and musicianship that makes the music come alive and leaves the listener craving to hear more.
This DVD will help make you the best guitarist you can be. Russ Barenberg shows you how to achieve good tone, keep solid time, use accents and syncopation, improve articulation and improvise freely and creatively. By applying these universal principals, your guitar will sound better and you’ll be playing at a more professional level in no time.
Russ imparts a wealth of advice, providing practice techniques and detailed instruction in basic improvisation that will benefit all players, from novices to experts. He dissects a well-known tune, O! Susanna, showing in step-by-step detail how to start with the simplest melody and end up with a full-blown improvised solo.
As you develop new instrumental skills, you’ll learn a variety of great tunes, including For J.L., Old Joe Clark, Dominion Reel, Prince Charlie and Cowboy Calypso.
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Exploring the Fingerboard
Russ Barenberg
Six CDs, includes tablature book
Find and play any note in any position on the neck, build chords and improvise melodies!
This six-hour course, devised for Homespun by the well-known guitarist Russ Barenberg, provides a road map for fully understanding the entire guitar fingerboard.
Russ shows you how to play scales in a variety of fingerings and positions to familiarize you with every note. He then isolates the intervals, so you always know where to find important chord degrees such as the tonic, major third, minor third, fifth, dominant seventh, etc. In this way, you learn the basics of chord building and fine-tune your harmonic ear.
As you progress through this unique method, you’ll discover how to pick out melodies and then vary them, developing your improvisational skills. Russ also covers music theory as it pertains to the guitar, ear training, improvisation and exercises to strengthen your left hand. Highly recommended for all serious guitar students, regardless of the style of music you prefer to play.
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